Forum: Benghazi worse than Watergate

Tuesday

May 13, 2014 at 8:30 PM

Re. May 6 editorial, “Let’s not be politically naive about Benghazi”:

No, Benghazi is not equal to Watergate. No one died at Watergate! In Benghazi four Americans died!

The press hounded Nixon day after day — rightly so — because he tried to cover up Watergate, until he was forced to resign. Where has the press been during all these hearings? It is well known now that our president knew from the onset that it was not a video, and yet sent Susan Rice out to lie to us. Is that not trying to “cover up?” And the administration has done that not only with Benghazi, but Fast and Furious, IRS targeting conservatives and all the other scandalous issues. Who has been held accountable? Could that be because our attorney general has openly chosen to disregard any and all facts and findings?

When Lois Lerner took the Fifth day after day, did we see that on the front page of the PJS? In all these issues, where was the outrage in the press?

The press has always been the watchdog for the people, until now.

If whiny Attorney General Eric Holder honestly believes that no other president or attorney general has had to hear such criticisms from their detractors, he and the president should visit the Lincoln Museum.

Instead, as always, unable to defend their policies, they fall back on the race card.